### **CLI**

#### **Kubectl**

*   `kubectl cp` can now copy a remote file into a local directory. ([#46762](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/46762),[ @bruceauyeung](https://github.com/bruceauyeung))

- Added ability for kubectl wait to wait on arbitary JSON path (#105776, @lauchokyip) [SIG CLI]
- Added the ability to specify whether to use an RFC7396 JSON Merge Patch, an RFC6902 JSON Patch, or a Strategic Merge Patch to perform an override of the resources created by kubectl run and kubectl expose. (#105140, @brianpursley) [SIG CLI]

### CLI
- Fixed kubectl endpointslice output for get requests ([#82603](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/82603), [@robscott](https://github.com/robscott))
- Gives the right error message when using `kubectl delete` a wrong resource. ([#83825](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/83825), [@zhouya0](https://github.com/zhouya0))

## Deprecations and Removals

- kubectl
  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.
  - The `--pod`/`-p` flag for `kubectl exec`, deprecated since 1.12, has been removed.

- Adds proxy-url flag into kubectl config set-cluster ([#105566](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/105566), [@ardaguclu](https://github.com/ardaguclu)) [SIG CLI]

- Kubectl apply: warning that kubectl will ignore no-namespaced resource `pv & namespace` in a future release if the namespace is specified and allowlist is not specified. ([#110907](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110907), [@pacoxu](https://github.com/pacoxu))

- kubectl

  - `kubectl convert`, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.17.
  - The `--export` flag for the `kubectl get` command, deprecated since v1.14, will be removed in v1.18.

- The `gcp` and `azure` auth plugins have been removed from client-go and kubectl. See https://github.com/Azure/kubelogin and https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/containers-kubernetes/kubectl-auth-changes-in-gke ([#110013](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/110013), [@enj](https://github.com/enj))